Imagine sitting in the cosy living room of a small cottage, warming your hands by a crackling fire. A cup of tea sits on the …
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“Remember, Remember…” The Ominous Origins of Bonfire Night
“Remember, remember the fifth of November…” I’ve always found that old saying rather ominous, and I think Bonfire Night itself is unsettling. What makes it so harrowing for me isn’t the historical origins (of Guy Fawkes nearly blowing up parliament), but the people standing by a blazing fire and watching as the life-sized mannequin of a person goes up in flames…
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(Comment "π" [one book emoji] if you stick to one, or "π" [multiple books emoji] if you juggle manyπ)
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If you know me by now (and as you can see by the photo), I am very chaotic with my readingπ These are the books I currently have on the go, along with 2 Kindle books, an audiobook and a pdf. Some (the ones at the back) I started last year - but I'm going to return to all of them once I've finished the ones at the front!
I've read like this for as long as I can remember - and as you can imagine, it usually takes me a while to get to the end of each bookπ
(It took me a year to complete the last installment of the Lockwood & Co. series, because I didn't want it to be over!)
I either take weeks to finish a book, or read it in one sitting - with no in-betweenπ While the two things are so juxtaposed, they are both 'me', and I think it's interesting how we can possess two contradicting traits like that within ourselves, simultaneouslyπ€·ββοΈ
It's probably some psychological attention-related thing, but to me it means I can hop between worlds; exist as different people in different places around the same time. I don't feel "book hangovers" for as long, because I'm already settled into other worlds, and I can transfer my focus to one of those while I mull over the one I just left.
Fun fact - I rarely use a bookmark, and instead just find the page I was last on (although recently I've been using the lovely bookmarks I got from @thepoetichistorianπ₯°)
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I love how reading styles can be so unique and varied for different people!
βAre your reading habits as chaotic as mine?β
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